Sunday, October 24, 2010

So before I let a whole 'nother month go by (& where on earth has this month gone, I ask you?!)...I must thank Katie at Southern Style&Living for sharing an award with me! If you are looking for class&style w/ a Southern accent, Katie is your girl! Go check her out!

But perhaps my all-time favorite spot was behind my pawpaw's recliner, in a corner. His recliner was placed catty-corner in my grandparents' living room; & I would curl up behind it with a pillow & a book, & just "hide." Of course my grandparents&mama knew exactly where I was, but it felt like such a

secret,

special

little

world.

Now that I reflect back on it, I wonder if that was the subconscious inspiration for my insistence upon catty-cornering my "grown up reading chair," which is my beloved cozy oversized armchair that is upholstered in an almost-madras-in-style fabric. It is in our living room today.

I remember buying a few copies of Tiger Beat here&there in about the sixth grade (mostly for purposes of decorating my very first locker), but I preferred Sassy & Seventeen magazines (at what was probably "too young" of an age).

Then in high school I "graduated" to InStyle magazine after my best friend & I spent a week in Florida with my best friend's cousin Merry, who seemed too cool to really be an adult. Merry had about eight shelves in her home office devoted to her carefully organized magazine collections.

(She also had the coolest house&job ever!)

The magazines of hers that intrigued me the most were Architectural Digest & InStyle, but I had a hard time finding AD after returning to my small mountain town in Alabama.

Drawing back on my sorority rush days, I sometimes sing the Greek alphabet to myself when I need to calm down or get my mind off of something...

...& I can't help but end it with, "Gooo Greek, everybody now!"

I have been inexplicably drawn to any&everything patchouli-scented for as long as I can remember. I have also been inexplicably repulsed by any&everything raspberry-flavored or -scented for as long as I can remember.

I don't listen to mainstream radio of any genre, but I find new music by

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Thanks, y'all, for being so patient with me while I've been bloggy-neglectful.

I don't think two weeks-ish is the longest I've ever gone without posting - I was pretty sporadic when I first began blogging - but it is certainly longer than I am accustomed to!

So there I was on that last Wordless Wednesday, thinking I had this big, long stretch of fall break ahead of me. I envisioned spending exciting, fun mornings with Pretty Little Bare Feet, playing & taking day trips...& then catching up on blogging&laundry while she caught her afternoon nap zzz's each day.

Ha!

(BTW, that is not my child. Just a random cute vintage photo!)

During the fall "break" from her Montessori nursery school, Pretty Little Bare Feet determined that she was ready to begin potty-training. Let me just tell you - I was not ready! But more than one of my wiser momfriends (& my own mama) assured me that I would be a fool to discourage Pretty Little Bare Feet's eagerness, or put it off if she was ready. So I've spent the majority of the last couple weeks in the bathroom, at least when we've been at home.

& while Pretty Little Bare Bottom Feet has no problem with me glancing at my MacBook or a magazine, she does seem to take offense if I actually try to type anything in her pottying presence. So I've done quite a bit of catching up on your blogs, but I apologize for the lack of commenting!

For added fun, Pretty Little Bare Feet has also gotten it into her head that she no longer needs a nap. She is twenty months old. Thus, this no-napping thing is ridiculous.

Now, I have to be honest...I am perfectly rested & ready to function at full speed on an average of six hours of sleep a night or so. So Pretty Little Bare Feet does come by this "I don't need no stinking sleep!" thing honestly. But she has a history of occasional night terrors (as do I), so she needs to nap. & besides, I need her to nap! There are a lot of things I can get accomplished in the afternoon that I am just plain too exhausted to attempt by the time we put her sweet toddler tail to bed.

(& how excited am I?! that Pretty Little Bare Feet also loved the flamingoes best! They are my favorite!)

preparing for a 5k that I'm running on Saturday;

(This girl is a treadmill-conditioned "runner" - & I totally get that all of you outdoorsy runners are superior to me. That's fine - you can have your ragweed & your snakes. I prefer my access to bottled water, iPod speakers, & the latest issue of Town&Country magazine! ;))

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Still...life is short, & time is precious. I do not have the time to find the original source for every image I find on the internet...& nobody is entitled to a photo credit for an image they found & posted on their blog, even if their blog is where I actually found it. (I learned that in law school! =))

If you do see a photo here, that you legitimately have a right to, but that I have been unable to properly acknowledge...please contact me through the email address on my Blogger profile. In that case I will be more than happy to give you credit, or remove the image, at your request.

That being said...most of the images for which I have not supplied an origin, I have found via Pinterest. I do reformat &/or resize nearly every single photo because I am OCD like that.